Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to FFmpeg

Product categories

Audio & Music Audio Converter Audio Player Cloud Storage File Converter Live Streaming Product Presentation Tool Video Video Converter Video Platform Webrtc

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to FFmpeg are HandBrake, Shutter Encoder, and VidCoder. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

HandBrake Landing Page
1

HandBrake

HandBrake allows users to easily convert video files into a wide variety of different formats.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Converter #File Converter 568 social mentions
Shutter Encoder Landing Page
2

Shutter Encoder

Open source software without any restriction - converter all formats video|audio|image professionnals codecs and standards - swiss knife tool Windows, OSX and Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Video #Video Converter #File Converter 43 social mentions
VidCoder Landing Page
3

VidCoder

VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application for Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Converter #File Converter 19 social mentions
Voukoder Landing Page
4

Voukoder

Use the best encoders available in Adobe Premiere CC!
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Converter #File Converter 22 social mentions
fre:ac Landing Page
5

fre:ac

fre:ac is a audio converter and CD extractor designed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux, distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Product Presentation #Audio & Music 3 social mentions
Ant Media Server Landing Page
6

Ant Media Server

Scalable, Ultra Low Latency & Adaptive WebRTC Streaming Ant Media Server provides Scalable Ultra-low latency (0.5 seconds) Adaptive Live Streaming with WebRTC. It supports RTMP, RTSP, Zixi, WebRTC, Adaptive Bitrate, HLS and MP4 recording.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $99.0 / Monthly (Ultra Low Latency WebRTC Streaming - Adaptive Bitrate - Cluster)
#Live Streaming #Video Streaming #Webrtc 45 social mentions
gstreamer Landing Page
7

gstreamer

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Tool #Video Platform 14 social mentions
MistServer Landing Page
8

MistServer

MistServer is a lightweight, open-source multistandard multimedia server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Tool #Video Platform 1 social mentions
Shotcut Landing Page
9

Shotcut

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform, non-linear video editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Editors #Video Editor 115 social mentions
Mediasoup Landing Page
10

Mediasoup

Mediasoup is a tool that is related to media streaming provides you rich scalability and performance with its robust selective forwarding unit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Tool #Video 9 social mentions
Opus Interactive Audio Codec Landing Page
11

Opus Interactive Audio Codec

Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio Player #Media Player #Video 11 social mentions
VideoLan Landing Page
12

VideoLan

VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Converter #Cloud Storage 29 social mentions